Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

The sun slowly sank to the west, and the blue-white sky began to be covered by darkness little by little from the east. More than 10,000 infantry teams had assembled by the river, and the two teams that had crossed the river first had gone to investigate the situation.

Dong Zhuo stood beside the embankment with his hands behind his back, staring motionlessly at the dark reeds on the opposite bank.

Time passed slowly. Dong Yue looked at the crescent moon in the sky and advised, "It's inconvenient to travel at night. The scouts won't be back soon. My lord, why don't you rest for a while?"

Dong Zhuo shook his head. "How can I sleep soundly when the army hasn't safely evacuated yet? If the enemy discovers this route, we'll have to make a desperate attempt to break out tomorrow. I wonder how many men and horses will be lost?"

"My lord, why didn't you send Liu Jing to lead the troops to support us?"

"I sent Liu Jing to station at Anding to prevent the Anding Qiang from causing trouble. Furthermore, the terrain is narrow over twenty miles to the east. If more people come, they will block our escape route."

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard hurried footsteps coming from the bottom of the embankment. A soldier, his face covered in blood, ran over and said urgently, "General, there is an ambush ten miles east on the opposite bank. We have been ambushed."

"It's true!" Dong Zhuo sighed in disappointment and waved his hand to signal to retreat.

The soldier opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but seeing that Dong Zhuo looked unhappy, he quickly bowed and retreated.

Dong Yue asked curiously, "Why don't you ask how many ambushes there are?"

"It doesn't matter how many there are. Since they've set up an ambush there, it means they've noticed our intentions. All they need to do is send a group of archers to guard the other side of the dike, and none of our troops will be able to get through."

Dong Zhuo turned and walked back into the tent, ordering, "Wait for the scouts from other routes to return, destroy the dike, and then break out with the entire army tomorrow."

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"General, Dong Zhuo's army has begun to break through!"

The next day, in the rebel camp, one of the leaders, Beigong Boyu, stood in front of the camp, looked in the direction of Dong Zhuo's army and nodded to indicate that he understood.

"General, why don't we pretend not to know and launch a surprise attack when he crosses the dike?" a deputy general asked in confusion.

Beigong Boyu asked, "How do we surprise attack? He sent out several scouts last night to search the area within a twenty-mile radius. We can't hide our troops within that twenty-mile radius. Once we arrive from a distance, his infantry who cross the river first can form a formation on the other side to protect the rest of the people. Once his infantry has left, the remaining cavalry can charge and break through. His cavalry is much more powerful than us. Without the infantry to hold him back, we can't stop him."

"My goal is to completely cut off his path. The terrain here is narrow, and we have deployed numerous defenses. The infantry will be his biggest stumbling block."

Beigong Boyu mounted his horse and said to the messenger, "Send the message. Have Ji Yun, the first formation, release Dong Zhuo's troops and inform all defense lines to prepare for battle. Then send someone to the rear of Wangyuan to have Bian Zhang lead his men to attack Dong Zhuo's infantry formation."

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On the banks of the Wei River, Dong Zhuo's army divided into several square formations and broke out in a long snake shape.

This formation distribution was extremely dangerous for Dong Zhuo's army, and when the enemy had twice as many troops as their own, they could easily be divided into several sections and surrounded and annihilated.

However, due to the terrain restrictions, Dong Zhuo could only distribute his troops in this way. He placed most of the infantry at the back, forming two military formations in front and back to defend against the Qiang people coming from behind Wangyuan.

A small number of them were stationed in front of the formation, responsible for breaking through the crossbows and chevaux-de-frise arrays in front, and then the cavalry charged to open the enemy's defense line, and then turned around and attacked from behind the enemy to support the infantry.

"break!"

At Dong Zhuo's command, the marching drums sounded in the infantry camp.

"Broken! Broken! Broken!"

Three thousand infantrymen shouted three times in unison and began to advance to the rhythmic beat of drums. Their footsteps made neat thuds on the ground, as if everyone was stepping down at the same time. The swordsmen, archers, and spearmen were all in their positions, and no one was out of place during the advance.

Looking at this extremely strict military formation, the Qiang general not far away turned around to look at his own military formation, his face suddenly filled with disgust.

Some spearmen joined the archers, some archers lined up among the shieldmen, the formation was crooked and uneven, and many people even leaned on their spears. Compared with Dong Zhuo's army, they were not even a little bit inferior.

With this military formation, even without deliberately letting up, it would not be able to stop Dong Zhuo's troops.

At this moment, Dong Zhuo's army had entered the range of an arrow. The Qiang soldier general waved his flag and the archers began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

"put!"

"put!"

But the orders came from both sides at the same time.

"Swipe brush-"

The black rain of arrows flying across the sky was like a swarm of locusts, and each fell into the enemy's army. For a moment, screams were heard on both sides, but judging from the volume, it was obvious that the noise from Dong Zhuo's army was much smaller.

Before the screams had subsided, the second round of arrow rain arrived.

This time the gap between the two sides was very obvious. The arrows shot by Dong Zhuo's army were still uniform and fell into the Qiang soldiers in an overwhelming manner, while the arrows shot by the Qiang soldiers were sparse and inconsistent. Some of them were just about to fire the second round when Dong Zhuo's third round of arrows arrived, causing a large number of casualties among the Qiang soldiers.

After three rounds of arrow rain, the two sides began to engage in close combat. Although Dong Zhuo's army was constantly moving, the formation remained neat. The archers retreated to the rear in an orderly manner to shoot upwards, and the shieldmen and spearmen had begun to break through the barricades in front.

The Qiang soldiers, on the other hand, seemed to be in a panic. The archers wanted to retreat, the spearmen wanted to move forward, and many of them were pushing and shoving each other.

Under the slashing and pulling of the sword and shield soldiers, the two layers of barricades blocking the two armies were quickly opened. The Qiang soldiers' infantry formation had just been disrupted by three rounds of arrow rain and posed no threat to the cavalry. After the barricades were opened, the infantry fought for a while, and then Dong Zhuo ordered the infantry to retreat.

Behind the infantry, two thousand charging cavalry were ready to go.

Charging into battle and breaking through the enemy's formation requires a high level of martial arts skills from the generals. As the most powerful general in Dong Zhuo's army, Hua Xiong naturally served as the vanguard in breaking the siege.

"kill!"

Seeing that the infantry had dispersed to the left and right, Hua Xiong shouted loudly and two thousand cavalrymen began to march.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves was slow at first, but as the cavalry's speed increased, the sound became more and more urgent, like thousands of thunders exploding at the same time, shaking people's eardrums.

Seeing Dong Zhuo's cavalry rushing towards him, Beigong Boyu waved the command flag in his hand, and the disrupted Qiang infantry formation dispersed, and a group of Qiang cavalry came up to meet them.

Thousands of cavalrymen galloped across the battlefield, raising dust that covered the sky and the sun, and all you could see was gray dust.

The knights on both sides were skilled in horsemanship. Although the space was narrow, there were not many people and horses on the opposite side, so they could still move around. Before the Qiang cavalry collided with Dong's army, they passed by on both sides, until Hua Xiong's team rushed into the middle, and then surrounded them from both sides.

Hua Xiong took the lead, brandishing his sword with a whirring sound. The moment he touched the enemy, he had killed three Qiang soldiers. All the Qiang soldiers who stood in front of him were chopped off their horses as soon as they were touched by his sword.

The Qiang leader was also quite skilled in martial arts, and he killed two Xiliang soldiers with his hacking and slashing.

The two groups of cavalrymen fought together in one place, and all they could see were densely packed human and horse heads. The sounds of bones breaking and fighting screams mixed with the rumbling sound of iron hooves, echoing along the banks of the Wei River.

Hua Xiong led two thousand cavalrymen and penetrated the enemy formation like a sharp sword, quickly breaking a gap in the formation.